Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Yes, it's time for our quadriennial circuses, otherwise known as political conventions, in which delegates meet to nominate a candidate who has already won the nomination and to spend enough money on baloons to feed a third world country. So, this week and next week's quotes are all about politics. Read on.

One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato

If you put the federal government in charge
of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.Milton Friedman

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the
Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for
the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.John F. Kennedy

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you
were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.Mark Twain

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comments:

Great quotations, and Kennedy's words (along with many of his others)inspired me. He's the reason I registered as a democrat.(In MD ... don't have to pick a party here in GA... everyone here just assumes that if your skin is white, you're a republican.)

Funny, but true: in a nearby county, a former sheriff, who did nothing but cause huge problems, embarrassment, and expensive legal battles when he was in office the last time, and who has recently been indicted on thirty-some felony counts ... was chosen by the voters to do it all over again. Go figure. I guess the incumbent wasn't controversial enough for those folks.

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